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Reggaeton Legends: Vico C
Vico C is considered one of the greatest artists in the history of the Urban genre in Latin America and Spain. Reflective, deep, socially conscious and catchy and danceable lyrics are what Vico C songs are made for all kind of…
Things You Should Know About...The Madres y Abuelas de la Plaza de Mayo
Under the Argentine military dictatorship of 1976-1983, an estimated 30,000 people disappeared. What do you mean 'disappeared' we hear you ask? Literally, people – some armed opposition to the Junta, but most just…
The Art of Being Bi-cultural
Migration has always been part of human history and always will. Even those who thought they had one cultural identity, are the product of centuries of migration. Where localised migration may have mixed peoples of similar colour…
Salsa Albums from New York's 'Golden Era'
Over the years there have been so many different types of Salsa that it is impossible to do an over-arching Top Ten Salsa albums. Here are the best of New York's Golden Era. In the following weeks we'll be bringing you…
Cuban Salsa Tracks To Dance To
The best tracks to dance to, according to Kerry Ribchester, the lady who knows her stuff when it comes to getting into the salsa groove.
CERDITA 2018 Director CARLOTA PEREDA
CERDITA (2018) is a dramatic short film of horror fiction, written and directed by Spanish director CARLOTA PEREDA, with Laura Galán as the protagonist. It examines bullying and the pain of being different and how hate can…
Top Ten South American Political Thrillers
Is it any surprise that Latin America has produced some of the world’s best political thrillers? Latin noir has offered an imaginative terrain for questioning the shady practices of government and exposing the machinations and…
Loathe the Word Latino? Blame it on the French!
The word ‘Latino’ may conjure up style and swagger (LatinoLife, of course, equalling all things cool). But having been created as a tool in Europe’s colonial tussle for territory, is the word really cool or has Latin America come…
Remembering Daniel Santos, Puerto Rican Singer (1916-1992)
Very few singers have been able to combine Puerto Rican and Cuban music to create one single style like Puerto Rican Daniel Santos did. His long connection with the best Cuban music of the 1940s and 50s provided his musical work…
Things You Should Know About...Colombian Reggaeton
Reggaeton may have been born in Panama and Puerto Rico, but lately it seems that the reggaeton everyone wants to hear is Colombian. Artists such as Carlos Vives, Kevin Roldan and Lalo Ebratt are storming the charts in what…
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From the birthplace of Reggaeton, we finally have a superstar. Singer, songwriter, rapper and producer...this multi-talented musician is determined to push his Panamian imprint in Urbano
Black Heroes of Modern Latin America
A few months ago we brought you black heroes of Colonial Latin America - leaders and fighters who defied the prejudices against them and demanded change, freedom and racial justice, whether through slave rebellion or fighting the…
Remembering Los Panchos
When it comes to Latin music, there aren’t many acts bigger than Los Panchos. Founded in New York by two Mexicans and a Puerto Rican in 1944, the bolero singing guitar trio became a music institution, first all over the Americas…
The Right to Die? Euthanasia in Colombia
Meet the lawyers fighting to make euthanasia a human right in Latin America.
Señor Ceviche's Ceviche Clasico
Despite what people think, this Peruvian dish of fish cooked in lime juices, is perhaps one of the easiest things to make and can be regularly eaten at home. Here at Latinolife it's almost our staple diet. So healthy and…
Latin American Record Breakers
From giant comic books to ‘Despacito’, which incredible Guinness World Records titles were set in 2018? Latino Life takes a look at some of this year's stand-out achievements.
LONDON'S BEST LATIN STREET FOOD
Yes, it’s amazing, Latin American cuisine has even taken over Chelsea, as I recently discovered when I stumbled upon Duke of York Square one Saturday morning flush with Latin food stalls. My favourite was the Rainforest stall,…
Things You Should Know About...Latin Jazz pioneers
Latin Jazz or Jazz Latino…the Latino “tinge” was part of American Jazz DNA from day one but somehow has been, at best, perceived as a sub-genre or, at worst, erased from history books. When Cuban musicians arrived in Harlem in…
Myke Towers
It is no big secret that Reggaeton is today what Salsa used to be years ago for many Puerto Ricans: The National soundtrack. The Island of Enchantment has - and continues - to give rise to a new wave of world-class talent, and…
Spotlight on...El Alfa "El Jefe"
Emanuel Herrera Batista, known as El Alfa El Jefe is a powerful and charting Dominican urban singer He has gained respect in his home country as one of the most influential dembow artists. Since 2012, he has released more than…
Fuerte Apache, BUENOS AIRES
Our Candela visitor finds more heart than hostility in the notorious gangland estate on which Carlos Tevez was raised, as she visits the famous mural, homage to Fuerte Apache's favourite son.
Latin American Films to watch on Valentines Day
Is the stereotype really true? Do Latinos really do romance better? Then why does everyone turn to Hollywood when trying to find the best rom-com? We may not be famous for making comedy out of romance but we definitely do drama…
Sins of My Father: an interview with Juan Pablo Escobar
Despite countless books, documentaries and feature films about Latin America's most famous drugs lord, until now a word has never been publically uttered about Pablo Escobar by his family. Sixteen years after his death, now…
Juan Gabriel, Singer-Songwriter (1950-2016)
Juan Gabriel, who has died aged 66, is considered to be one of Latin American greatest singer-songwriters of all time. The Mexican wrote around 1,500 songs, many of which made hits for and brought fame and fortune to countless…
THE LAST FOREST – Where Dreams Collide and Nightmares Escape
In an isolated Yanomami land in the Amazon, the shaman Davi Kopenawa Yanomani tries to keep the spirits of the forest and the traditions alive, while the arrival of gold prospectors brings death and destruction to the community.…
5 Reasons to Love...Ricardo Darín
Catapulted to international fame with his performance in the Oscar-winning Argentine Film The Secret in their Eyes, Ricardo Darín has been one of the Spanish world's most respected and sought-after actors for decades, not to…
10 Rising Stars of Argentine Music
Argentines have a tradition of autogestión; a culture of dynamism and resilience where people just get on with it. This generation is no different: Just like their predecessors watched, copied and carved their own identity to…
Fearless Soul
Multi-instrumentalist and owner of a unique voice, Natalia Lafourcade has become one of Latin America’s the most successful artists. Ever since the young Mexican, daughter of a Chilean refugee, first broke into the charts in 2003…
Top 10 Hollywood Tunes composed by Latinos
With Latin American directors such as Guillermo del Toro, Sebastian Lelio, Pablo Larrain and Alfonso Cuaron sweeping the Oscars in recent years - - it seems that it was always that way. And, in the world of music, it kind of was…
Camarón de la Isla, Spanish Flamenco Singer (1950-1992)
Camarón de la Isla was considered by many as the gipsy god of flamenco. Today we remember his legacy and his legendary trajectory that left a mark in Spanish music history, leaving his memory to be respected with great zeal.
Oscar D'Leon Tracks that Rock the Dance Floor
One of the most important salsa singers ever, the Caracas-born ‘Sonero del Mundo’ has the whole package: as a sonero, he's up there with legends such as Hector Lavoe, Ismael Rivera or Beny Moré and, just as importantly,…
Apache: HipHop Sin Fronteras
The quality of Venezuelan Hip Hop has always been undeniable amongst fans of Latin HipHop, having produced international talent such as Canserbero, Lil Suppa, McKlopedia, Akapellah, along with the following artist. Larry Rada,…
NORTHERN SKIES OVER AN EMPTY SPACE (2022)
Selected to be screened for the Panorama Competition at the 72nd Berlin Film Festival, this Mexican ‘western’, the third feature to be directed by Alejandra Márquez Abella, delves into magical realism with the build-up of omens…
Manuel Turizo
A deep, authoritative voice, laced with the charm, typical of the Colombian costeño, Manuel Turizo is the new voice of the romantic, poetic Reggaeton coming out of Colombia that is storming the world. At a mere 17 years of age,…
Top Ten Spanish Crooners
Spain, the land of passionate flamenco, bolero and copla, more recently fusions of reggeaton, hip hop and punk, but what’s wrong with good old romance, and when it comes to crooning no one does is better than the Spaniards (you…
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